The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar

"For the glory of God the world was created; through it and for its sake the world is also redeemed."

"Balthasar's spiritual diagnosis of our civilization is the most penetrating to be found."

"Balthasar's calculated contribution is to remind us of the abiding priority of the grandeur and glory of God's own love."

"The absolute paradox, by which we are seized in faith, cannot conceivably develop out of our own experience."

"Theological method must acknowledge that Christ's beauty and not human dynamism is the center of its verification process."

"Jesus Christ's existence is the actuality or actuation ( Ereginis ) of all truth."